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Kevin Bergamine

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Nov 20, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/20/99
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"Honey, marriage has nothing to do with sex!"
That is one of Col. Blake's memorable quotes during the MASH early
years. Which of his quotes he uttered, drunk or sober, did you enjoy?


George Hiebert

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Henry: "Klinger it's four in the afternoon and you're still in a
housecoat? Put on a dress, you never know who might be coming by."
Klinger: "Yes sir."
Henry: "Boy you gotta keep on top of these guys every second."

JoeC1970

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Hotlips: Your Drunk!
Henry: Now that's a dirty lie! Infact I intend to press charges the minuete I'm
sober.

Howard

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Nov 20, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/20/99
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"Jeep...fast...crash...boom!"


Ron Kitchell

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Nov 20, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/20/99
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Thar she blows!

Ron

Dave Tholen

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Nov 21, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/21/99
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Ron Kitchell writes:

> Thar she blows!

"We keep our end up."

"You do that around here, and you get your temperature taken!"


Steve

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Nov 21, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/21/99
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My personal favorite is his view on church services....

"Oh, I avoid church religiously."


Steve

Elf

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Nov 21, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/21/99
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One of my favourite Henry scene's is the one where Klinger tries to get home
by bluffing the death of his closest family. Henry then reads up all his
previous attempts and say: "Aren't you ashamed of your self?" Klinger then
gives him a wonderfull look of regret: "Yes I am! I don't deserve to be in
the army!"

Wonderfull. :)

-Elf-
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Kevin Bergamine (Ppp...@webtv.net) wrote:
: "Honey, marriage has nothing to do with sex!"

: That is one of Col. Blake's memorable quotes during the MASH early
: years. Which of his quotes he uttered, drunk or sober, did you enjoy?

One I use in real life all the time is, "I was just going to suggest
that" ("For the Good of the Outfit").

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Marty

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Nov 21, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/21/99
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"Steal a man's drawers, and cut-off his legs..."
(referring, of course, to his desk!)

One of my favorites.

Pam Burke

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Nov 22, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/22/99
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"Here's looking up your old address."

Pam :)

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Abigail

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Pam Burke (hawk...@mash4077.com) wrote on MMCCLXXIV September MCMXCIII
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++ "Here's looking up your old address."


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Rob Morris

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Nov 23, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/23/99
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In 'The Great Man Stumbles' I took the ep 'Fallen Idol' ( Radar is
injured, and Hawkeye becomes upset ) and adapted it to Star Trek : The
Next Generation.

The Henry quote I used went thusly :

The recalicitrant leader of a planet has just humiliated The Federation
Ambassador by detaching his cybernetic legs and taking the man' s
underwear as a sick trophy. To which Picard responds :

"Merde! To Cut Off A Man's Legs--And Steal His Drawers."

That was of course from the ep where the supply lines were cut--one of
my all-time favorites.

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http://www.geocities.com/cowtsatung/fanindex.html ( Temp?)


Flying V

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Nov 23, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/23/99
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On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 10:10:45 -0500 (EST), Ppp...@webtv.net (Kevin
Bergamine) wrote:

>"Honey, marriage has nothing to do with sex!"
>That is one of Col. Blake's memorable quotes during the MASH early
>years. Which of his quotes he uttered, drunk or sober, did you enjoy?

From 'Major Fred C. Dobbs'

Frank (to Henry while holding Henry's hand): I'm yours... forever.

Henry: I gotta tell ya Frank. I've gone to sleep with happier
thoughts.

--

Gene

George Hiebert

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Nov 23, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/23/99
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Flying V wrote:
> From 'Major Fred C. Dobbs'
>
> Frank (to Henry while holding Henry's hand): I'm yours... forever.
>
> Henry: I gotta tell ya Frank. I've gone to sleep with happier
> thoughts.

What makes it even funnier is the dental stuff in his mouth while he
says it.

George Hiebert

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Nov 23, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/23/99
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"Frank it's after 8 o'clock, you can stop being snotty."

Rube

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"Just reaching for my frankfurter..."

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Ron Kitchell

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George Hiebert wrote:

> "Frank it's after 8 o'clock, you can stop being snotty."

I love that line. It's what made the early MASH so great. Witty comedy
in a serious episode about Margaret, Klinger and Hawkeye being at the
front.

Ron


Pam Burke

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Nov 24, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/24/99
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To Frank: "Its after 6pm, you can stop being snotty now."

PAUL GADZIKOWSKI

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George Hiebert (ge...@direct.ca) wrote:
: "Frank it's after 8 o'clock, you can stop being snotty."

"Frank - ! I swear, I'm going to put it in your record: You don't work and
play well with others."

Matt J. McCullar

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Nov 25, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/25/99
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Kevin Bergamine wrote:
>
> "Honey, marriage has nothing to do with sex!"
> That is one of Col. Blake's memorable quotes during the MASH early
> years. Which of his quotes he uttered, drunk or sober, did you enjoy?


* "I could be on the Olympic Snoring Team."

* "Five hundred and thirty bucks! For treating a fifteen-year-old
cat! What did she do, give it a face lift?"

* "Jeep... tent... crash... BOOM!"

* "Here's an oldie, but a goodie: half of the family dying, other half
pregnant."

Matt J. McCullar

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Nov 25, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/25/99
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Kevin Bergamine wrote:
>
> "Honey, marriage has nothing to do with sex!"
> That is one of Col. Blake's memorable quotes during the MASH early
> years. Which of his quotes he uttered, drunk or sober, did you enjoy?

Now I remember my absolute favorite. He's trying to get Klinger married
over the air with a ham-radio set, and accidentally reaches a couple of
women exchanging recipes.

"Would you like my recipe for never-fail cornbread?" she asks him.
"Lady, you ARE a piece of cornbread!"

Matt J. McCullar, KJ5BA
Arlington, TX

Arch Stanton

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Nov 25, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/25/99
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>Subject: Re: Henry Blake's quotes
>From: "Matt J. McCullar" <mccu...@flash.net>
>Date: Thu, 25 November 1999 12:13 AM EST
>Message-id: <383CE287...@flash.net>

From the episode in which he has to sleep in the swamp along with Radar,
Klinger, Father Mulcahy:

"Aw, rats! I have to go to the sandbox!"

George Hiebert

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Nov 25, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/25/99
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Henry: "You know, as rough as it's been sometimes, I think I'm gonna
miss you."
Frank: "Well it might not have come to this if you had the backbone to
maintain some discipline around here."
Henry: "Well so much for missing you."

Brad

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Nov 26, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/26/99
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In article <383DDC...@direct.ca>, George Hiebert <ge...@direct.ca>
wrote:

"I'm just telling this man's fortune by reading his bowel" From (As You
Were)

Brad

Nancy T.

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Nov 26, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/26/99
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Thanks for this thread. I really enjoyed it. Haven't seen any Henry
episodes in quite a while. This should hold me for a while.
--
--Nancy

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lauriehigh

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As he is preparing to go home and is in Rosies with the boys " I think a
little bark came off old number 2"

"I cant believe I gave a discharge to a sheep"

James Allen

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>As he is preparing to go home and is in Rosies with the boys " I think a
>little bark came off old number 2"
>
>"I cant believe I gave a discharge to a sheep"
>

He he.

Blake: I'm losing my mind...

Hawk: Don't fight it, Henry.

Blake: I've got command on my tail... and a hospital full of greeks waiting for
a lamb that's sitting on a plane on it's way back home to become Radar's little
brother!!

George Hiebert

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Boy am I in dutch with the Greeks.

Flying V

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"I'm wearing so many pairs of cotton drawers, my thighs don't know
each other anymore".

"She'll have a pink lady and I'll have a peach blow fizz"

--
Gene Vanderhoof
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SptmbrWind

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Dec 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/4/99
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>"She'll have a pink lady and I'll have a peach blow fizz"

Er. I don't drink, and I've never understood that line. Can anyone explain?

Brian Cannell

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In article <19991204094122...@ng-xa1.aol.com>, SptmbrWind
<sptmb...@aol.com> writes

>>"She'll have a pink lady and I'll have a peach blow fizz"
>
>Er. I don't drink, and I've never understood that line. Can anyone explain?

I've understood it to be sort of thing a typical High School teenager
would drink, as Henry comes back from Seoul with a decided lack of grasp
on reality and his head acting like a teenager again.

Am I in the right ball park?
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Flying V

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On 04 Dec 1999 14:41:22 GMT, sptmb...@aol.com (SptmbrWind) wrote:

>>"She'll have a pink lady and I'll have a peach blow fizz"
>
>Er. I don't drink, and I've never understood that line. Can anyone explain?

It was a funny, nay, ridiculous, drink for a typical, middle-aged man
to order, especially for Henry, who always drank the 'hard stuff'. And
he usually drank it straight. Think about it. A peach blow fizz?
Doesn't that sound silly? Even to a non-drinker? To appear more
attractive to his new 'L-U-V', Henry was trying to appear younger than
he actually was, thus, he dyed his hair (didn't that look silly?) and
he started jogging and exercising (didn't that look funny?). When he
took his young honey (Mary Sue Parker, I believe) to the O-club, he
wanted to maintain that facade of appearing younger than he was, so he
ordered a drink that he thought sounded 'young' or 'hip'. Instead, he
only sounded ridiculous (typical for Henry), which explains the look
on Hawkeye's face after Henry ordered it. That look was as funny as
Henry's line.

HTH

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Gene Vanderhoof
gen...@netscape.net

JERYYZ

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Henry: Your always wrong Frank, that is what is so right about you.

Genna Reeney

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"JERYYZ" <jer...@aol.com> wrote in message
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| Henry: Your always wrong Frank, that is what is so right about you.

After reading all of these quotes, I have to say that part of what made them
so good was the way that McLean Stevenson delivered the lines. Just the
inflections are enough to start me giggling.
--
Genna

Flying V

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On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:43:42 -0500, "Genna Reeney"
<willowbr...@WATERworldnet.att.net> wrote:

>After reading all of these quotes, I have to say that part of what made them
>so good was the way that McLean Stevenson delivered the lines. Just the
>inflections are enough to start me giggling.

Yea, and his body movements were most clever too, especially when he
was drunk.

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gen...@netscape.net

SptmbrWind

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>>>"She'll have a pink lady and I'll have a peach blow fizz"
>>
>>Er. I don't drink, and I've never understood that line. Can anyone
>explain?
>
>It was a funny, nay, ridiculous, drink for a typical, middle-aged man
>to order, especially for Henry, who always drank the 'hard stuff'. And
>he usually drank it straight. Think about it. A peach blow fizz?
>Doesn't that sound silly? Even to a non-drinker? To appear more
>attractive to his new 'L-U-V', Henry was trying to appear younger than
>he actually was, thus, he dyed his hair (didn't that look silly?) and
>he started jogging and exercising (didn't that look funny?). When he
>took his young honey (Mary Sue Parker, I believe) to the O-club, he
>wanted to maintain that facade of appearing younger than he was, so he
>ordered a drink that he thought sounded 'young' or 'hip'. Instead, he
>only sounded ridiculous (typical for Henry), which explains the look
>on Hawkeye's face after Henry ordered it.

Ah. Of course. I've been transcribing too long (on other newsgroups), I
suppose. I've lose my powers of reason and decdution. Seems all I can do is
relate events, rather than interpret them. :)

By the way, it was "Nancy Sue Parker."

George Hiebert

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Elf wrote:
>
> My favourite Henry moment is the look he has on his face when waking up in the
> tag of the episode "Private Charles Lamb." He sees all the crasiness going on
> in the supply tent and then goes back to sleep.
>
> -Elf-

I'll never forget seeing that one when it first aired. That last scene
put my dad into a laughing fit.

Elf

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My favourite Henry moment is the look he has on his face when waking up in the
tag of the episode "Private Charles Lamb." He sees all the crasiness going on
in the supply tent and then goes back to sleep.

-Elf-
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Abigail

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George Hiebert (ge...@direct.ca) wrote on MMCCLXXXVI September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:384884...@direct.ca>:
++ James Allen wrote:
++ >
++ > >As he is preparing to go home and is in Rosies with the boys " I think a
++ > >little bark came off old number 2"
++ > >
++ > >"I cant believe I gave a discharge to a sheep"
++ > >
++ >
++ > He he.
++ >
++ > Blake: I'm losing my mind...
++ >
++ > Hawk: Don't fight it, Henry.
++ >
++ > Blake: I've got command on my tail... and a hospital full of greeks waiting
++ > a lamb that's sitting on a plane on it's way back home to become Radar's li
++ > brother!!
++
++ Boy am I in dutch with the Greeks.


- Happy Athens!

- The nineteenth? That's right between the eightteenth and the twentieth,
if I'm a judge of nineteenths.


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Abigail

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Flying V (gen...@netscape.net) wrote on MMCCLXXXVI September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:384b8548...@netnews.worldnet.att.net>:
++ "I'm wearing so many pairs of cotton drawers, my thighs don't know
++ each other anymore".
++
++ "She'll have a pink lady and I'll have a peach blow fizz"


Honey, marriage has nothing to do with sex!

Nurse: I don't go out with married man.
Henry: Well, neither do I!

Unclerik99

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>>>"She'll have a pink lady and I'll have a peach blow fizz"
>>
>>Er. I don't drink, and I've never understood that line. Can anyone
>explain?
>
>I've understood it to be sort of thing a typical High School teenager
>would drink, as Henry comes back from Seoul with a decided lack of grasp
>on reality and his head acting like a teenager again.
>
>Am I in the right ball park?
>--

I think that you are playing ball, alright. I also feel that Henry was being a
little facetious, knowing that in a (near) front line bar such as that one was,
that he really didn't expect to get much more than their normal board of
fair.(fare??)

Merry Christmas
buck


Abigail

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Unclerik99 (uncle...@aol.com) wrote on MMCCLXXXVIII September MCMXCIII
in <URL:news:19991206071141...@ng-ch1.aol.com>:
++
++ I think that you are playing ball, alright. I also feel that Henry was being
++ little facetious, knowing that in a (near) front line bar such as that one wa
++ that he really didn't expect to get much more than their normal board of
++ fair.(fare??)


He has also asked for a banana daquiri (?). I can't remember which episode
though.

George Hiebert

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Abigail wrote:
>
> Unclerik99 (uncle...@aol.com) wrote on MMCCLXXXVIII September MCMXCIII
> in <URL:news:19991206071141...@ng-ch1.aol.com>:
> ++
> ++ I think that you are playing ball, alright. I also feel that Henry was being
> ++ little facetious, knowing that in a (near) front line bar such as that one wa
> ++ that he really didn't expect to get much more than their normal board of
> ++ fair.(fare??)
>
> He has also asked for a banana daquiri (?). I can't remember which episode
> though.

In Officer's Only and the reply was, "Is that a drink sir?"

bra...@my-deja.com

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Dec 7, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/7/99
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In article <slrn84o65d....@alexandra.delanet.com>,

abi...@delanet.com wrote:
>
> He has also asked for a banana daquiri (?). I can't remember which
episode
> though.
>

'Officer's Only'. He tried to explain it to the bartender: "You take
some bananas and some cream ... (and something) and you put it all in a
blender." The response was "We have no bananas, no cream and no
blender". Then Blake says "All right, just give me a beer."

Brad


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Flying V

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On 06 Dec 1999 12:11:41 GMT, uncle...@aol.com (Unclerik99) wrote:

>I think that you are playing ball, alright. I also feel that Henry was being a
>little facetious, knowing that in a (near) front line bar such as that one was,


>that he really didn't expect to get much more than their normal board of

>fair.(fare??)

Perhaps this was true, but if you look carefully, he was actually
given the drink.

--
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64VJ8

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Dec 7, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/7/99
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My favorite Henry Blake quote (and there are many!):

Col. Blake: "Radar, do we have enough sherry and ginger ale for the
general?"

Radar: "Oh, no one does, Sir"

Col. Blake: "Well, if no one does, then we shouldn't have to, but you
better make sure we do, in case we don't"


And on another matter, can anyone tell me what the heck goes in a peach
blow fizz and/or a pink lady?

Genna Reeney

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|
|
| And on another matter, can anyone tell me what the heck goes in a peach
| blow fizz and/or a pink lady?

Peach Blow Fizz
Gin - Cream - Peach - Seltzer - Lemon - Sugar - Ice

Pink Lady
Gin - Cream - Grenadine - Ice (some people add egg whites.... ugh!)

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Unclerik99

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>>I think that you are playing ball, alright. I also feel that Henry was
>being a
>>little facetious, knowing that in a (near) front line bar such as that one
>was,
>>that he really didn't expect to get much more than their normal board of
>>fair.(fare??)
>
>Perhaps this was true, but if you look carefully, he was actually
>given the drink.
>
>--
>Gene

No, I didn't see that. I must have been taking a bite of Pizza, at that
moment. (Ofcourse, then how do I explain away all the other times I've seen
that same scene.) I CAN'T. (sob) <that's tears, incidently, not a name call.
:))

Merry Christmas

buck


Pam Burke

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I'll stick to martinis, thank you...

--
Pam :)

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George Hiebert

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Genna Reeney wrote:
>
> "64VJ8" <acbeckma...@lycosmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:112cf6a7...@usw-ex0101-004.remarq.com...
> |
> |
> | And on another matter, can anyone tell me what the heck goes in a peach
> | blow fizz and/or a pink lady?
>
> Peach Blow Fizz
> Gin - Cream - Peach - Seltzer - Lemon - Sugar - Ice
>
> Pink Lady
> Gin - Cream - Grenadine - Ice (some people add egg whites.... ugh!)
>
> --
> Genna

Let me guess, you worked behind a bar at one time?

Genna Reeney

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"George Hiebert" <ge...@direct.ca> wrote in message
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|
| Let me guess, you worked behind a bar at one time?


Un-official gigs back in college.

--
Genna


George Hiebert

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Dec 9, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/9/99
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Lest we forget this classic:

It's both an honor and a privilege and a pleasure to welcome you to that
which only through your magnanimous generosity are we able to be
standing in the middle of it.

Oh ya and there's this one:

You get ice cream on Sundays, no bed check, movies. We had The Thing and
The Blob both in one week. I mean if it weren't for the war we'ld be
really having a good time. Although what the hell we'ld be doing over
here without a war I can't tell ya. So maybe it's just as well there's
one going on if you follow the way I've drifted.

Now that's entertainment.

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